[MPlayer-dev-eng] New MPlayer release soon

[Roberto Togni]

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:17:15 +0300
Ivan Kalvachev <ikalvachev at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/29/15, Roberto Togni <rxt at rtogni.it> wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I'd like to do a new release of MPlayer, using the soon to be
> > released FFmpeg 2.8.
> >
> > This will be the last FFmpeg release before a lot of old APIs are
> > dropped; since the support in MPlayer for their replacement is very new
> > it would be good to have a stable version in case of problems.
> > Also some features will have to be removed in MPlayer after (eg. XvMC,
> 
> Why are you giving XvMC as example?

No special reasons, it's just one thing that I remember having no
replacement when it's dropped from FFmpeg.

If you think it's important, I can mention in the release notes that
this will be the last version that supports it.


Ciao,
 Roberto